Recently a boy about fifteen years old appeared in my office on crutches, about forty-eight hours after he had had a laceration of his right ankle sutured in one of the emergency rooms. It was a small laceration, about a half-inch long, but it hurt him so much he could not put his weight on […]

On the matter of warts … Bob Brewer says: “I always use castor oil as an aid to the elimination of warts. I use the electric needle on the wart itself, and then during the entire healing period, a castor oil soaked band-aid is used.” He has had no recurrences. Bob Forbis, on the other […]

One of the values of research at the personal level is the realization by the individual that something real has happened within his own experience, and that he has produced data that, once shared, may be meaningful and helpful to other people. Ian Dorian, an A.R.E. member from St. Louis, shared this bit of information […]

W. Lindsay Jacob, a psychiatrist, recently called and told us this story: A patient of his had tinnitus for over three years-so severe that it prevented her from working, and so baffling in its nature that her doctors sent her to a psychiatrist. Lindsay had heard how castor oil drops have really worked a variety […]

The Palma Christi – the Palm of Christ – is the name given during the Middle Ages to the common castor oilplant. No one knows exactly why it was so named. But it’s interesting to consider the importance of symbols and the place symbology plays in the lives of men. Was it just coincidence when […]